Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

[Iberê Fernandes]

Julien,

One of my laptops is a Celeron M 1200 Mhz, 512 Ram from 2002. Kind of old
machine (but still good, of course) to use Lubuntu.

Memory report after 1h hour of navigation on 2 to 3 tabs (no facebook
though, because it's a browser killer to me):
Memory
Browser Private Proportional
Chromium 155,276k 93,976k
Firefox         99,604k    30,128k

Usage on the report above: youtube, email, google search, forum reading.

My vote: Firefox. I'm using FF 21 vs Chromium 25.0.1364.160 on this laptop.

Anyway I stick with Phill's test once I believe it's more
empiric/scientific.

Just a note: Firefox tends to be slow to open, but after it's open, it's
faster than Chromium to me. Not very important if we stick to the most
important side: it's the surfing/browsing speed that counts more than the
opening/initial loading.

Question: why Midori is not a candidate?

Cheers,
Iberê


2013/5/31 Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com>

> Hi Boss,
>
> we did actually do some tests via
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1096603
>
> It was pretty clear that the slimmed down Ffox was better for low resource
> machines (as evident in post
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1096603/comments/4)
>
> In all my dealings with Chad from Canonical who looks after Chromium, I
> have have never had any cause to doubt his honesty and openness. That he
> suggests staying with Ffox for ubuntu is a massive statement. IMHO, Lubuntu
> would be wrong to not follow his advice.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
> On 31 May 2013 22:55, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 31/05/13 21:56, Yorvyk wrote:
>>
>>> On 31/05/13 20:25, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2013-05-31 19:53, Julien Lavergne wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> So, if you have feedback on using both browsers, please bring it to us
>>>>> :-) But please, keep the discussion on this topic (feedback on low
>>>>> spec hardware).
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I prefer Firefox in general (maybe because I am more used to it) but I
>>>> use both. Sometimes it is convenient to run both at the same time.
>>>>
>>>> But since I'm interested in the support of old and 'small' hardware, I
>>>> have also tried Firefox and Chromium-Browser with very limited RAM (less
>>>> than 1 GB). Then it is very obvious that Firefox is better. I have the
>>>> same experience as Lars Noodén with the "it's dead, Jim" message in
>>>> Chromium-Browser.
>>>>
>>>>  System - 450 Mhz PIII - 640 MiB RAM - Matrox MGA G200 VGA Controller
>>>
>>> Neither Firefox or Chromium will play Flash. Chromium invariably
>>> displays the 'It's dead Jim@ message, FF just displays a blank space but
>>> at least it leaves the rest of the page intact.
>>>
>>> Memory usage when both idle with no extensions using about:memory in
>>> Chromium.
>>>
>>> Firefox  - 39804k
>>>
>>> Chromium - 81164k
>>>
>>>
>>>  Should have mentioned the memory readings took place using Saucy with
>> Firefox 22 and Chromium 25.
>>
>>
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abs e bons estudos!
iberê
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